The city of Milan

Marshal Bardogio has been annoyed lately, and since April 7, when the Kingdom of Sardinia announced its annexation of Lombardy, a bunch of democrats have come out in protest.

I don't have to say it, he, the marshal, has no say in major national affairs, not to mention these small people, so naturally they sent troops to disperse.

Fortunately, the Austrian army has already suppressed a round, and the hard bones have almost been killed, and the people of the Provisional Government are also bribed and bought, house arrest, and the rest of these people are just mouth kings.

"Your Excellency, there is another group of people petitioning outside, asking you to send troops to recover Venice!" The attendant whispered

This is not the first time that there have been petitions, petitions for independence, petitions for autonomy, petitions for increased food rations......

In short, regardless of whether Bartorio can call the shots or not, the people of Lombardy seem to have recognized him, and if there is something to do, they will petition the marshal.

Heroes are not so easy to be, and in order to maintain his glorious image, Badolio has to make an appearance of humility.

Except for those who demanded independence and were expelled by the troops he sent to the army, he would meet with the petitioning representatives and explain his difficulties by the way.

For example, the fact that military personnel do not interfere in politics is the reason he uses the most.

Having said a lot, Badolio himself now has some belief that this is true, and he has rarely interfered in the affairs of the Lombardy region lately, unless someone from the local government takes the initiative to find him.

"Let them send a representative in!" Bardolio said with a frown

No way, I can't hide from it this time. Sending troops to the Venice region is not only a political issue, but also a military issue, and now that the command of the troops on the front line of the Kingdom of Sardinia is under his command, this time he has found the right person.

Soon two student-looking people were brought in, and Bardolio's brows tightened, and the second middle school boy Shenma was the most headache.

"Your Excellency the Marshal, I'm Reem, he's Townsend, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

Looking at the excited two teenagers, Badolio politely replied: "I'm also glad to meet you, can you show me the petition first?" ”

"Oh, okay!" Reem hurriedly replied

Taking the petition, Bardolio quickly glanced at it. This is a bloody letter, the content in it is very bloody, and there are dense signatures on the back, and he was almost moved.

"I have received this petition, and I will forward it to the king as soon as possible, but when the attack on Venice will be launched, this is a military secret that I cannot reveal.

Now we are preparing for a military attack, and everyone knows what happened some time ago, because the preparation was not sufficient, and everyone went hungry together.

This time we have learned our lessons, so we need to take a little longer to prepare for the war, and we cannot be forced to stop military operations again because of the problem of food.

The total strength of the Austrians was five or six hundred thousand, and once the war of Venice began, they would certainly send reinforcements, and now I have insufficient troops.

Domestic reinforcements are still on the way, and the recruits who have just been recruited in Lombardy are still training, and these will take time.

But rest assured, the final victory will be ours! ”

After listening to Badolio's explanation, the two teenagers kept nodding, they were both military novices, and there was no Internet in this era, and they were not clear about the domestic situation in Austria.

According to normal thinking, that is, Austria is very strong, and Marshal Badogio, who can defeat Austria, is the number one general in the world, and what he said must be right.

"Victory will be ours, Your Excellency Marshal, we all believe in you. You're definitely not the cowardice of the legends out there, they're all jealous of your talent! Townsend panicked

Badolio suddenly felt in his heart that a group of grass and mud horses had run by, could he not say it so directly, so that he would have no friends.

Attack Venice? Isn't this nonsense, do you really think Austria is papier-mâché?

Now he had 150,000 nominal troops, nearly a third more than the Austrians opposite, but the 150,000 troops were too heavily hydrated, and nearly 70,000 of them were recruited on the spot.

The Italians had never been trusted by the Viennese government, so the Austrian army did not have a reserve in the area, and the soldiers recruited by Bardogio were in fact farmers who had just laid down their hoes, or workers in the cities.

Even there was a shortage of junior officers, and the Italian region was not a German region, especially in Lombardy, where the commercialization was serious, and the military literacy of the local aristocracy was plummeting.

It can be said that this temporarily reorganized unit was used to make up the numbers, and now it is not even equipped with a single gun, and it is used to engage in logistics and maintain local law and order.

If it is sent to the battlefield, it is to give the enemy a head, and the real main force of this war is the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

80,000 Sardinian Army PK 100,000 Austrian Army, no matter how you look at it, how unreliable it is, this is the reason why they stopped attacking.

But the people did not know that they were simply calculating the total number of troops, and that the Austrian army in Italy was only 100,000 in total, and that it had now been reduced by several thousand because of the suppression of the revolution.

The 150,000 troops of the Kingdom of Sardinia, with the cooperation of the Venetian people, could not defeat the more than 90,000 Austrian troops?

The pressure on Marshal Bardogio is not too great, the powerful faction of Lombardy has just defected to the Kingdom of Sardinia, and he does not dare to do anything, and now it is the student representative who comes, and he has been fooling in the past in a short time.

King Charles, on the other hand, was a group of various groups within the Kingdom of Sardinia, who had only used the war to divert internal contradictions, and as a result, he had gone too far, and now radical nationalists urged him to send troops to Venice every day.

It was his own pot, and in order to ease the political pressure at home, King Charles hyped up the defeat of the Austrians by the Sardinian army at Lombardy, which led many to mistakenly believe that Austria was nothing more than that.

Public opinion is the easiest to fall into madness, Charlie Albert forgot too much, or it is useless for him to know, public opinion is simply not under his control.

Nationalism was now on the rise in Italy, and the Kingdom of Sardinia, where it was the strongest, was once again spurred on by the defeat of the Austrian army.

By this time, nationalism and patriotism were on the verge of spiraling out of control, and they were constantly reminded that the Venetian region was still under Austrian rule.

After the annexation of Lombardy by the Kingdom of Sardinia, all the populaces were rejoicing in the further unification of Italy, and at this time the Austrian-controlled area of Venice was an eyesore.

The Kingdom of Sardinia is already a tiger!